succeeding society may not need driverless cars so much as driverless boats .

By 2100 , researchsuggeststhat ocean could be up to six infantry high than they currently are . harmonise to anew reportfrom the online real - landed estate database Zillow , these changes would have enormous ( and enormously expensive ) event for the US housing mart , which stands to miss hundreds of billions of dollars deserving of dimension .

The society used   information from theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationto produce elaborate map showing how family in 10 major cities would be   dissemble by these rising sea .

In Boston, rising sea levels would wipe out nearly a fifth of the entire housing market, most of it consumed by the Charles River.

Here ’s what the future could look like .

Honolulu is densely populated, which means it wouldn’t take much to wipe out entire swaths of homes. Six feet would destroy more than a quarter of the total housing value.

The damage in Jacksonville is much more spread out. With its collection of smaller rivers and tributaries, the city has many small coastlines that would struggle to resist overwhelming ocean forces.

Damage to Long Beach, California would remain localized near the Alamitos Peninsula, a low-lying region that floods easily and has become a point of study for oceanographers.

Miami’s greatest weaknesses lie along the eastern coastline and the Miami River, which cuts through the city from the Atlantic.

As evidenced by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New York’s Rockaway Beach and other adjacent Brooklyn neighborhoods face the greatest risks. Downtown Manhattan, with its pricey skyscrapers, also could lose a lot.

In San Diego, less than 1% of housing faces threats from rising sea levels. What little damage there’d be would occur near Mission Beach, not too far from Sea World.

Seattle faces a similarly bright scenario. Compared the 30% of Miami homes that could be damaged, the Pacific Northwest city would only see 0.9% destroyed, mostly those near Elliot Bay in the west and Lake Washington to the east.

Tampa should fortify two distinct regions in the coming century: the western edge near Old Tampa Bay and the coast off Davis Islands in Hillsborough Bay to the east.

Virginia Beach, like Jacksonville, features many winding creeks and rivers whose low banks could result in billions of dollars of property damage. Zillow estimates the cost at nearly $5 billion.